Münster Trilogy

Skybird · 10-19-21, 04:53 PM

Completed!

This is, after some problems, the third and last Münster movie (not counting the night camera test I also posted).

After the river Werse in the East and the Aasee in the South-West, its now the arc from West to North. We again travel into the Kreuzviertel and then see the city castle, which is home to parts of the university, and the castle garden; next through one of the university districts, before we leave the centre city behind and enter the green belt surroundign the city and separating it from several satellite settlements that form a ring around Münster. Parks and garden landscape this belt often is, at least in the West. These are of younger age and slowly growing, over the coming decades they probably will connect to and melt into the city of Münster at their centre. Here we travel through the nice area of very green Gievenbeck, then come close to and almost to Roxel (where my parents live), turning north then and pass through Nienberge, and then in the final stage touch Kinderhaus and Coerde, the latter of which borders the area where I live, the Rumphorst quartier. My own quartier is right on the North-Eastern rim of the main town, which is ideal: I am quickly out of the city and in the green, if I want, but also quickly in the old town and city centre, can be there within 5 minutes (shortest track to the centre place is less than 2 km, usually I take one of several possible greener tracks, making it 4km). Infratdurtcure and variosu shopping opporutnties and supply optiisn are ideal. I live in my place since 21 years, and I think I scored it very well and luckily. Thats why I bought it after the first four years. I wanted it, the former owner was willign to sell, and we made the deal, fast and uncomplicated as I like it.

There is, with the exception of the castle garden, little touristic attraction to be seen, but while the first videos had that, and the romantic idyll of the river Werse, this video shows pretty much the real and typical face of the surrounding Münsterland region, which in the endn was and is a farming ground in the main. Its mostly flat and can be a bit boring, dull. I prefer the region south of Osnabrück, the Teutoburger forest and Wiehengebirge, therefore, which is more hilly, but way more idyllic. The first film with the Werse is beautiful, yes, but it is not typical for the Münsterland, really it is not. Typical is what you see in this film. What I jkiss here, is a bigger forest area. I am a forest man. Others love beaches and the sea, others prefer the mountains. I need a forest. Preferrably with no humans in it. Well, not in or around Münster, that is the only real setback here.

Still you can live well and quite green here, the charm of the city is that it is not only offering nice infrastructure for bicycles in a pragmatic meaning (good surface quality of tarmac, and plenty of bicycle tracks and roads), but that the city also is offering many, many parks and green corridors, if you know these well you can get around almost everywhere without needing to travel grey and boring main traffic streets, but can bike along trees and meadows, almost everywhere. Its a very green city. I almost exclusively use these "green tracks", it is good for the eye and good for the soul and I have no timetables to meet, so i can afford easily to take some minutes longer to get from A to B.

Münster has 1.6x as many bicycles than inhabitans (500,000 bikes for 310,000 people. Even Dutch tourists not knowing it and being here for the first time are stunned by how many bicycles we have here, the density is very high, leaving even the Dutch metropoles behind, and that means something (for foreigners: the Dutch have the reputation of being Europe'S most fanatical bicycle users

). Its the most used means of transportation, before cars and busses. Over 40% of traffic here is done by bicycles. Münster was seen as and maybe still is Germany's bicycle capital.

I have two heavy locks with me when biking. Thats the dark side of things. When I use the ebike, I always take battery, saddle and spring mount for the saddle with me. I also have a good, versatile flat-bed

trailer. But I have no car. You don't need one here. You need good bicycles, and cloathing for every weather. I have a normal bike for city distances and short trips, and an ebike for long tours and heavy shopping duty.

I never use busses. I HATE bus driving, and I hate it with a passion. For some reason, however, i liked the subway in Berlin. But you will never see me in a bus, no matter what. I find it absolutely disgusting. Yes, thats a bit queer maybe, but thats how I tick. Push me towards a bus, and I have my fangs at your throat immediately.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this last film, the tour has 32 km, making it the longest of the three. Maybe its the most sober of the three, but then: it is what it is and it shows how it looks here, without faking reality.

It was early morning.

This map provides a quick overview.

For the sake of having it all completely in one place, I link the other two videos here again, too.

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=250596

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=250748

Reece · 10-21-21, 06:26 AM

Hi Sky, been so busy for the last few days, quite tired (weary), have only been able to watch to the 19mn mark so far.
Started off not looking as good as the other 2 tracks, graffiti and all but soon came into some very nice areas, parks etc.
If I ever got over there I would have to contact you, maybe you could take the wife and I on a bus tour!!

Will continue with the video tour when I get the chance, but very nice so far, thanks.

Skybird · 10-21-21, 07:44 AM

Glad you enjoy it!

Onkel Neal · 10-23-21, 08:43 AM

Wow, great video. That is a lovely town, so many green spaces and really nice bike trails and roads. I would definitely bike everywhere if we had a town infrastructure like that, Sky.

I'm wondering, if I replay the video on Youtube and change the replay speed to .75, will that slow it down to closer to normal speed?

Great job!

Skybird · 10-23-21, 10:04 AM

Glad you like it. Two of the three video are shot in constant 2x Timewarp, one video uses both 2x and 5x, because in the pedestrian zone I did not drive but walked and pushed the bike: slower speed, but 5x acceleration. Thats why you almost do not relaise the differnce between driving and walking: 2x 15km/h= 30 km/h virtual speed, 5x 5.5 km/h= 27.5 km/h virtual speed.

Yes, you can deccelerate the videos via Google, and 0.75 still works fine, the frames will become a bit unsmooth, but not enough to be seriously cruel to the eye. However, the music will distort accordingly.

Technically, Timewarp is GoPro's name for a special mode of their cameras that works extremely well and is a bit different from normal Timelap. It does not film in nomal speed and then accelerate the recorded file like timelap would do, but it films, accelerates and stabilises the image - and just then saves it to the SD card (thats also the reason why you have no soudn recording in this mode, it makes no sense). That does not sound like a big difference, but two years ago I filmed with normal modes and then accelearted it in postprocessing 2x, and also filmed in Timelap mode - and the quality is really inferior, there is more nervousness and instability in the images, and it becomes more stressing for the eye. The selling argument for GoPro cameras for me is their superior Timewarp mode, and their as good image stabiliser. I use nothing else but this Timewarp mode.

"Essen holen" is the most idyllic place to the East, along the river Werse. i think that video is the most pleasant of the three, and I had a lucky hand with the music choice.

"Aasee" is about a central city district of beauty and wealth, the green ring named Promendae aroudn the town, the central city lake, and the shopping centre, pedestrian zones and many churches.

"Herbstfahrt" shows the castle garden and how the landscape looks if you leave the city westwards. Its less urban and more landscape focussed.

Yes, many gardens, parks, and "green bicycle corridors". Münster is famous for that.

No, you do not need a car here, you really just do not need it, it only costs you money. You need one or two good bicycles, and good clothing for every weather, maybe a good trailer, it certainly helps. Public transportation/bus grid is said to be good. I do not need nor use it. You have good train connections, too.

Check the map above. Enjoy!

Reece · 10-24-21, 11:54 PM

Just finished the tour Sky, very nice, the parks and the trails are amazing, looks like you'd never run out of areas to ride in, though you did seem to know every turn off by heart.

Many thanks.

Skybird · 10-24-22, 12:53 PM

I invite you to another ride through Münster's southeast. It's not a sightseeing trip to tourist attractions, but simply a drive through small forests and over harvested fields, through suburban districts and part of Münster's industrial areas. In keeping with the autumn weather, sometimes it is sunny and colorful, sometimes the sky is rather grayish and the world seems cool. Let's go for a ride! It's off to the Werse again, but this time much further south than before, to Angelmodde, then toward Osttor on the canal, and back along the party mile at the city center harbor. Relax. Enjoy. Dream to be there and doing the ride yourself.

Shady Bill · 10-24-22, 02:26 PM

I bought an Oculus Quest 2 last year. Wanted to see what that was all about. One year later, I have one thing installed on it; Wanderer. It is pretty much Google Earth VR. You can do things as shown in your video.

You can even join locals or other weirdos on "hikes". Where someone will tell you about the sights. I avoid this kind of thing but enjoy seeing all the different places.

Shady Bill · 10-24-22, 02:29 PM

Sorry I was watching your videos, not reading...this is you riding? In reality?

Even more impressive

Skybird · 10-24-22, 02:54 PM

All videos in this thread are by me, except the one on the Rieselfelder where I say it is not by me.

One tip for VR. I now have a G2, but had the Oculus Rift from late 2017 until one yera ago. Get Virtual Desktop (very useful anyway), and in it a mod named Highmaxx Cinema, and here the so-called "Dark Theme". That means the audience hall and seat rows are a bit darker whrn the moviescreen lights up. Then run your PC desktop on the big movie screen, start any film you want to see, and watch it
"in cinema". This is the best way I have so far found to watch movies, though I do not know how the resolution of the Quest 2 is, but in the G2 I not rarely watch my movies this way, its great, and the screen is the biggest and really giant, the biggest I know in VR. I mimic a cinema at Sidney Harbour that they have destroyed meanwhile.

There are many other movie themes available for Virtual Desktop. Ofdten the yhave more detialed audience halls, but the screen always are smaller.

I have watched many movie DVD this way. it works wonders. My films also look nice.

VR also is fantastic for racing simulations. It does not get any more ideal, than here. Certain 2D titles also benefit from playing them on the big movie screen. Works fantastic with Wreckfest, for exmaple.

Next tip: in Viortual desktop, you can use it for watchign 360° videos. You find them at youtube, and mostly people shoot these kind of videos tpo do city sightseeing. I have sat on sightseeing touriost busses in the upper, open deck, and did full reglar tours in London, Paris, new York, and the likes. Its fantastic (with the resolution of the G2). Try it! I have one guy in berlin who shoots his videos with a helmet camera, 360° - while riding a bike. Its as if you siot ont je bicycle, looking left and right. This is what VR is made for, one of those "ideal" purposes that are not possible to do without VR.

Unfortunately ion the Quest 2 I think you cannot run Google arth VR and Streetview VR, whcih I also use extremely often. Check it to be sure. Its a must have. Its what VR was made fore.

Due to the idiotic legal situation in germany I must hide my videos shot from bike a bit and do not run them under a public profile at youtube. Germany is retarded in more than just one thing, I tell you. Shooting such videos or posting them at youtube in principle always is criminal in Germany, by a number of laws. No, not just a misdemeanor if you think that - but a felony.

Die Deutschen spinnen total.

Check Google Streetview, Europe. And then look at what you see in in for Germany. Just 20 cities, the rest is a white map.Germany regulated Google to death until Google said they do not care for Germany anymore, they are out.

Shady Bill · 10-24-22, 06:37 PM

Thank you for those VR tips. "The goggles" as I refer to the oculus Q2 are pretty nice, but they feel much like a toy, not a real tool, to me. The resolution is decent enough to enjoy doing some things but I wouldn't call it "life-like".

It is not good enough to read books on for example.

It has a chess game where you can sit in front of a board and play other people in virtual space. I considered buying it but I find the thought of playing chess with human avatars terrifying.

Have you tried the chess VR? is it fun?

Thank you for those videos. They are beautiful routes you took.

10-19-21, 04:53 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Münster Trilogy Completed! This is, after some problems, the third and last Münster movie (not counting the night camera test I also posted). After the river Werse in the East and the Aasee in the South-West, its now the arc from West to North. We again travel into the Kreuzviertel and then see the city castle, which is home to parts of the university, and the castle garden; next through one of the university districts, before we leave the centre city behind and enter the green belt surroundign the city and separating it from several satellite settlements that form a ring around Münster. Parks and garden landscape this belt often is, at least in the West. These are of younger age and slowly growing, over the coming decades they probably will connect to and melt into the city of Münster at their centre. Here we travel through the nice area of very green Gievenbeck, then come close to and almost to Roxel (where my parents live), turning north then and pass through Nienberge, and then in the final stage touch Kinderhaus and Coerde, the latter of which borders the area where I live, the Rumphorst quartier. My own quartier is right on the North-Eastern rim of the main town, which is ideal: I am quickly out of the city and in the green, if I want, but also quickly in the old town and city centre, can be there within 5 minutes (shortest track to the centre place is less than 2 km, usually I take one of several possible greener tracks, making it 4km). Infratdurtcure and variosu shopping opporutnties and supply optiisn are ideal. I live in my place since 21 years, and I think I scored it very well and luckily. Thats why I bought it after the first four years. I wanted it, the former owner was willign to sell, and we made the deal, fast and uncomplicated as I like it. There is, with the exception of the castle garden, little touristic attraction to be seen, but while the first videos had that, and the romantic idyll of the river Werse, this video shows pretty much the real and typical face of the surrounding Münsterland region, which in the endn was and is a farming ground in the main. Its mostly flat and can be a bit boring, dull. I prefer the region south of Osnabrück, the Teutoburger forest and Wiehengebirge, therefore, which is more hilly, but way more idyllic. The first film with the Werse is beautiful, yes, but it is not typical for the Münsterland, really it is not. Typical is what you see in this film. What I jkiss here, is a bigger forest area. I am a forest man. Others love beaches and the sea, others prefer the mountains. I need a forest. Preferrably with no humans in it. Well, not in or around Münster, that is the only real setback here. Still you can live well and quite green here, the charm of the city is that it is not only offering nice infrastructure for bicycles in a pragmatic meaning (good surface quality of tarmac, and plenty of bicycle tracks and roads), but that the city also is offering many, many parks and green corridors, if you know these well you can get around almost everywhere without needing to travel grey and boring main traffic streets, but can bike along trees and meadows, almost everywhere. Its a very green city. I almost exclusively use these "green tracks", it is good for the eye and good for the soul and I have no timetables to meet, so i can afford easily to take some minutes longer to get from A to B. Münster has 1.6x as many bicycles than inhabitans (500,000 bikes for 310,000 people. Even Dutch tourists not knowing it and being here for the first time are stunned by how many bicycles we have here, the density is very high, leaving even the Dutch metropoles behind, and that means something (for foreigners: the Dutch have the reputation of being Europe'S most fanatical bicycle users ). Its the most used means of transportation, before cars and busses. Over 40% of traffic here is done by bicycles. Münster was seen as and maybe still is Germany's bicycle capital. I have two heavy locks with me when biking. Thats the dark side of things. When I use the ebike, I always take battery, saddle and spring mount for the saddle with me. I also have a good, versatile flat-bed trailer. But I have no car. You don't need one here. You need good bicycles, and cloathing for every weather. I have a normal bike for city distances and short trips, and an ebike for long tours and heavy shopping duty. I never use busses. I HATE bus driving, and I hate it with a passion. For some reason, however, i liked the subway in Berlin. But you will never see me in a bus, no matter what. I find it absolutely disgusting. Yes, thats a bit queer maybe, but thats how I tick. Push me towards a bus, and I have my fangs at your throat immediately. Anyway, hope you enjoy this last film, the tour has 32 km, making it the longest of the three. Maybe its the most sober of the three, but then: it is what it is and it shows how it looks here, without faking reality. It was early morning. This map provides a quick overview. For the sake of having it all completely in one place, I link the other two videos here again, too. https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=250596 https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=250748 __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 10-21-21 at 08:34 AM.

10-21-21, 06:26 AM	#2
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 32,744 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Hi Sky, been so busy for the last few days, quite tired (weary), have only been able to watch to the 19mn mark so far. Started off not looking as good as the other 2 tracks, graffiti and all but soon came into some very nice areas, parks etc. If I ever got over there I would have to contact you, maybe you could take the wife and I on a bus tour!! Will continue with the video tour when I get the chance, but very nice so far, thanks. __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

10-21-21, 07:44 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Glad you enjoy it! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-23-21, 10:04 AM	#5
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Glad you like it. Two of the three video are shot in constant 2x Timewarp, one video uses both 2x and 5x, because in the pedestrian zone I did not drive but walked and pushed the bike: slower speed, but 5x acceleration. Thats why you almost do not relaise the differnce between driving and walking: 2x 15km/h= 30 km/h virtual speed, 5x 5.5 km/h= 27.5 km/h virtual speed. Yes, you can deccelerate the videos via Google, and 0.75 still works fine, the frames will become a bit unsmooth, but not enough to be seriously cruel to the eye. However, the music will distort accordingly. Technically, Timewarp is GoPro's name for a special mode of their cameras that works extremely well and is a bit different from normal Timelap. It does not film in nomal speed and then accelerate the recorded file like timelap would do, but it films, accelerates and stabilises the image - and just then saves it to the SD card (thats also the reason why you have no soudn recording in this mode, it makes no sense). That does not sound like a big difference, but two years ago I filmed with normal modes and then accelearted it in postprocessing 2x, and also filmed in Timelap mode - and the quality is really inferior, there is more nervousness and instability in the images, and it becomes more stressing for the eye. The selling argument for GoPro cameras for me is their superior Timewarp mode, and their as good image stabiliser. I use nothing else but this Timewarp mode. "Essen holen" is the most idyllic place to the East, along the river Werse. i think that video is the most pleasant of the three, and I had a lucky hand with the music choice. "Aasee" is about a central city district of beauty and wealth, the green ring named Promendae aroudn the town, the central city lake, and the shopping centre, pedestrian zones and many churches. "Herbstfahrt" shows the castle garden and how the landscape looks if you leave the city westwards. Its less urban and more landscape focussed. Yes, many gardens, parks, and "green bicycle corridors". Münster is famous for that. No, you do not need a car here, you really just do not need it, it only costs you money. You need one or two good bicycles, and good clothing for every weather, maybe a good trailer, it certainly helps. Public transportation/bus grid is said to be good. I do not need nor use it. You have good train connections, too. Check the map above. Enjoy! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 10-23-21 at 10:18 AM.

10-24-21, 11:54 PM	#6
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 32,744 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Just finished the tour Sky, very nice, the parks and the trails are amazing, looks like you'd never run out of areas to ride in, though you did seem to know every turn off by heart. Many thanks. __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

10-23-21, 08:43 AM	#4
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,284 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	Wow, great video. That is a lovely town, so many green spaces and really nice bike trails and roads. I would definitely bike everywhere if we had a town infrastructure like that, Sky. I'm wondering, if I replay the video on Youtube and change the replay speed to .75, will that slow it down to closer to normal speed? Great job!

10-24-22, 12:53 PM	#7
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	I invite you to another ride through Münster's southeast. It's not a sightseeing trip to tourist attractions, but simply a drive through small forests and over harvested fields, through suburban districts and part of Münster's industrial areas. In keeping with the autumn weather, sometimes it is sunny and colorful, sometimes the sky is rather grayish and the world seems cool. Let's go for a ride! It's off to the Werse again, but this time much further south than before, to Angelmodde, then toward Osttor on the canal, and back along the party mile at the city center harbor. Relax. Enjoy. Dream to be there and doing the ride yourself. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-24-22, 02:26 PM	#8
Shady Bill Silent but not deadly Join Date: Oct 2022 Location: Somewhere north of AN34 Posts: 171 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I bought an Oculus Quest 2 last year. Wanted to see what that was all about. One year later, I have one thing installed on it; Wanderer. It is pretty much Google Earth VR. You can do things as shown in your video. You can even join locals or other weirdos on "hikes". Where someone will tell you about the sights. I avoid this kind of thing but enjoy seeing all the different places.

10-24-22, 02:29 PM	#9
Shady Bill Silent but not deadly Join Date: Oct 2022 Location: Somewhere north of AN34 Posts: 171 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Sorry I was watching your videos, not reading...this is you riding? In reality? Even more impressive

10-24-22, 02:54 PM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,496 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	All videos in this thread are by me, except the one on the Rieselfelder where I say it is not by me. One tip for VR. I now have a G2, but had the Oculus Rift from late 2017 until one yera ago. Get Virtual Desktop (very useful anyway), and in it a mod named Highmaxx Cinema, and here the so-called "Dark Theme". That means the audience hall and seat rows are a bit darker whrn the moviescreen lights up. Then run your PC desktop on the big movie screen, start any film you want to see, and watch it "in cinema". This is the best way I have so far found to watch movies, though I do not know how the resolution of the Quest 2 is, but in the G2 I not rarely watch my movies this way, its great, and the screen is the biggest and really giant, the biggest I know in VR. I mimic a cinema at Sidney Harbour that they have destroyed meanwhile. There are many other movie themes available for Virtual Desktop. Ofdten the yhave more detialed audience halls, but the screen always are smaller. I have watched many movie DVD this way. it works wonders. My films also look nice. VR also is fantastic for racing simulations. It does not get any more ideal, than here. Certain 2D titles also benefit from playing them on the big movie screen. Works fantastic with Wreckfest, for exmaple. Next tip: in Viortual desktop, you can use it for watchign 360° videos. You find them at youtube, and mostly people shoot these kind of videos tpo do city sightseeing. I have sat on sightseeing touriost busses in the upper, open deck, and did full reglar tours in London, Paris, new York, and the likes. Its fantastic (with the resolution of the G2). Try it! I have one guy in berlin who shoots his videos with a helmet camera, 360° - while riding a bike. Its as if you siot ont je bicycle, looking left and right. This is what VR is made for, one of those "ideal" purposes that are not possible to do without VR. Unfortunately ion the Quest 2 I think you cannot run Google arth VR and Streetview VR, whcih I also use extremely often. Check it to be sure. Its a must have. Its what VR was made fore. Due to the idiotic legal situation in germany I must hide my videos shot from bike a bit and do not run them under a public profile at youtube. Germany is retarded in more than just one thing, I tell you. Shooting such videos or posting them at youtube in principle always is criminal in Germany, by a number of laws. No, not just a misdemeanor if you think that - but a felony. Die Deutschen spinnen total. Check Google Streetview, Europe. And then look at what you see in in for Germany. Just 20 cities, the rest is a white map.Germany regulated Google to death until Google said they do not care for Germany anymore, they are out. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-24-22, 06:37 PM	#11
Shady Bill Silent but not deadly Join Date: Oct 2022 Location: Somewhere north of AN34 Posts: 171 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Thank you for those VR tips. "The goggles" as I refer to the oculus Q2 are pretty nice, but they feel much like a toy, not a real tool, to me. The resolution is decent enough to enjoy doing some things but I wouldn't call it "life-like". It is not good enough to read books on for example. It has a chess game where you can sit in front of a board and play other people in virtual space. I considered buying it but I find the thought of playing chess with human avatars terrifying. Have you tried the chess VR? is it fun? Thank you for those videos. They are beautiful routes you took.